Two of the best defensive players in football are out for about a month after injuries suffered last weekend.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reported this morning that Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and Steelers safety Troy Polamalu are both expected to miss about a month.
Polamalu is expected to be sidelined about a month with a strained ligament in his knee, Schefter quotes a source close to the situation as saying. The injury is to the same knee -- but not the same injury -- that Polamalu hurt in Week 1. That injury caused him to miss about a month as well.
Suggs strained his medial collateral ligament when Browns quarterback Brady Quinn drilled him in the knees on Monday night. Schefter reports that estimates of Suggs' time out range from three weeks to six weeks.
The Steelers and Ravens play each other in Week 12 and again in Week 16. It's a safe bet that neither Polamalu nor Suggs will be on the field for the first meeting, and the question is whether they'll play in the second.
Suggs, Polamalu, both out about a month
Posted by Michael David Smith on November 22, 2009 11:38 AM ET
Considering that Suggs is having a mediocre year, while Troy is up to beastness as usual... I'd say advantage Ravens.
Quinn should enjoy his next game against the Ravens. And the pain afterward.....